We are told by cal fire even though we cant see the fire from where we are, hundreds of people are working to put out the flames. Nine helicopters took passes over dry brush pouring gallons of water on the bear fire burning in santa cruz county. Cal fire said it started around 10 30 pm monday night when cruise got a call of a structure fire in the bear canyon road area. I didnt see or smell anything. As soon as they got around the bend, the whole thing was lit up. Reporter at least four homes were destroyed as the fires burned more than 270 acres. In the fires path was sandra was home. Everything is gone. We had a really nice place. We are at the driest point of the fire season. This is when together whether usually turns. The fields are dries they get right now. Reporter hellfire put mandatory evacuation orders in place. The fire is burning less than a mile from 150 homes. At 1130 last night we got a reverse 911 call. The sheriff county saying we needed to evacuate. I filled my car, m
But the fuels are as dry as they get right now. We are expecting cal fire to hit this fire again aggressively this morning using a combination of hand crews, heavy equipment and air support as the sun comes up. Keep in mind this could be a relatively stubborn fire because of the steep terrain out here. Already five firefighters have injured themselves battling the bear fire. No word about overnight injuries and about those conditions. But thats one of the reasons why these firefighters may have injured themselves. They were telling me the conditionings are so steep they could have misstepped and start tumbling down an hour. Were going to have an update at 7 00 on the progress we are expecting that as the sun comes up. Theyre going to do that aerial survey. That will give them a sense of how the fire has developed overnight, where they need to con straight their resources and how to focus on getting the bear fire under control. Back to you guys. Thank you, christien. They were trying to
We can tell you from our experience here right now it is certainly much cooler this morning, with a little more relative humidity, more humidity in the air. Both of these very good signs for cal firefighters as they try to get control of the bear fire. The fire did settle down overnight. One of the things they wanted me to get across to folks, they received calls into the night up until midnight last night about people concerned that the fire was making a run. They say that does not appear to be the case. The fire has not made a run into surrounding areas. Firefighters telling me that they got calls as far away as saratoga and the fire is certainly not in that area. It seems that the fire has been largely contained or self contained, not that they have increased con tapement, but largely self contained in the area where it did burn yesterday. We are expecting that briefing to detail, again, how that fire developed overnight. We can tell you that it was smokier this morning at the comma
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